@geniusmusing I am so glad they've done this.

When I was working in #MS, nearly every Euro-American I talked to would realize by my non-Southern speech that I was not a resident. They'd day almost word for word "It's not like it was fifty yrars ago; give it a chance".

It was hard to do so when the courthouses had Confederate monuments with captions like "dedicated to the men who fought for our freedom" and the state flag (in a majority Black state) still had the Confederate battle flag in it.